Marcel Möring was born in 1957 in Enschede, Holland. Publication of his first novel, Mendel, was an instant success, winning Holland’s Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for Best Debut. His second novel, The Great Longing, was the Dutch bestseller of 1992, and received the country’s most prestigious prize, the AKO. It was translated into many languages, and was published in English by Flamingo. In Babylon is Möring’s third novel. He lives in Rotterdam.